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Skandia, part of Old Mutual Wealth, today announces the launch of informer, a new website for financial advisers, offering access to a wide range of technical support and financial planning information. The site replaces Skandia’s long running adviser publication of the same name and will shortly be available as a mobile app.

The informer site is available to UK and offshore advisers, and by personalising their profile, allows advisers to create their own fund lists and highlight the content most relevant to their business and clients.

The range of historical and new materials available includes the specialist tax and financial planning support that was previously housed within Skandia’s ‘Knowledge Direct’ website. Advisers can also sign up for e-mail alerts and will be able to access the brand new app on their mobile devices.

The informer website forms part of Skandia’s ongoing support for advisers and is just one component of a suite of technical planning support materials and services that Skandia offers to advisers depending on their requirements. This support also includes face to face technical support at a local level, a dedicated technical helpdesk and local seminars.

Michelle Andrews, marketing director at Skandia, comments:

“Skandia has always prided itself on the technical support it offers advisers and the launch of informer demonstrates our commitment to this. The online library is packed full of technical documents covering a wide range of financial planning areas. By visiting this free website, advisers and paraplanners can quickly access the technical information most relevant to them when advising or addressing client planning needs.

“It is also collaborative– we will host content from advisers and we will closely track what’s most popular, in order to guide future content ideas.”

Old Mutual Global Investors (‘OMGI’) is the asset management business of Old Mutual Wealth with £39.8bn funds under management (as at 30 September 2017). On the 19th December 2017, Old Mutual Wealth announced that it has agreed to sell its Single Strategy asset management business to the Single Strategy Management team and funds managed by TA Associates. The proposed transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.

Following managed separation from Old Mutual plc, Old Mutual Wealth will rebrand to Quilter plc. Each of the businesses within the Quilter Plc group will be rebranded over a two-year period, with the exception of Quilter Cheviot, which will retain its existing name.

Old Mutual Wealth is part of Old Mutual plc, a FTSE 100 group that provides life assurance, asset management, banking and general insurance. Old Mutual is trusted by more than 19.4 million (as at 31 December 2016) customers across the world and has a total of £212.3 billion of assets under management (as at 30 June 2017).

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